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5.3 Exercise 17

Avg difficulty 2.5

The data of the exercise, above, are converted to conditional probabilities and probabilities, as follows (probabilities are rounded to two decimal places).

GROUP 1 P(G1)=0.56P \left(G_{1}\right) = 0 . 56 GROUP 2 P(G2)=0.44P \left(G_{2}\right) = 0 . 44
Q Yes No Unc Yes No Unc
1 0.61 0.31 0.08 0.41 0.51 0.08
2 0.50 0.38 0.12 0.29 0.65 0.06
3 0.23 0.64 0.13 0.59 0.33 0.08
4 0.29 0.63 0.08 0.57 0.29 0.14
5 0.32 0.62 0.06 0.42 0.50 0.08
6 0.58 0.23 0.19 0.29 0.62 0.09
7 0.19 0.70 0.11 0.56 0.32 0.12
8 0.56 0.38 0.06 0.29 0.63 0.08
9 0.65 0.20 0.15 0.41 0.50 0.09
10 0.29 0.63 0.08 0.59 0.32 0.09

For the following profiles classify each individual in one of the subgroups.

  1. y, n, y, n, y, u, n, u, y, u
  2. n, n, u, n, y, y, u, n, n, y
  3. y, y, n, y, u, u, n, n, y, y

Pfeiffer, Applied Probability, 5.3 Problems on Conditional Independence, exercise 17

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